There’s a reason Aaron Webber, Stephen Frost, and other Sega personnel teased a trip to New York City this week on their personal Twitter pages. It turns out the travel is more for business than pleasure.

In a video posted today, Machinima.com–the same outlet that brought the recently completed Sonic for Hire series–revealed something they probably should not have: A virtual invitation to an exclusive 2014: Year of Sonic reception at ESPACE, an event stage for rent in New York City. The address is clearly printed on the video Machinima posted, though the RSVP date is well past. We can determine two things from the invite: One, this appears to be organized in part by a third party PR firm with Sega’s help, and second, the upcoming Sonic Boom television series appears to play a role, judging from the artwork used.

If you’re in the New York City area and want to try and crash the party, now you can–but we never encouraged you to do so (in fact, this story may be subject to our Sensitive Materials Policy as we never received an invite.) Otherwise, we’ll keep our eyes and ears close to our sources and see if we can get any information out of the event here first.

A reboot is just what Sonic needs. Wipe the slate clean and sweep all that mind bending continuity garbage from Sonic Adventure 2 onwards neatly under the rug.

Then burn the rug, place the ashes into the tip of a nuclear bomb and fire it directly into the sun.

Skai Cyan

Posted February 6, 2014 at 3:49 AM

Even as someone who grew up playing Sonic 2+3, I certainly hope not. All the ‘deep’ stories they did and characters they added post Adventure are what kept me interested in Sonic. Does it need cleaning up? Most definitely, but if they wiped it all out I don’t think I could keep playing Sonic games.

Moon

Posted February 6, 2014 at 4:51 AM

Same here.

zonic94

Posted February 6, 2014 at 9:20 AM

Me too. Sonic Team should be cleaning up that stuff for the better, not flat-out discarding it and alienating a good majority of the fanbase from it.

If they do wipe the slate completely clean and fully embrace the light-on-substance, overly juvenile and jokey direction they’ve been taking since Colours, I honestly think I’m just going to give up on this franchise, because it’s quite clear they don’t really want fans like me here.

Gnat1

Posted February 6, 2014 at 12:49 PM

Exactly, if the slate is wiped clean, I just hope they go as far back as Colors or Unleashed. The continuity was what made me a Sonic fan in the first place.

If the series is completely redone, and all future games have a story like Lost World’s, then sadly, I might have to abandon the franchise that first introduced me to video games.

seriousely, SEGA, why the fuck not just use the CG characters we have in the recent games that are perfect, instead of making new shitty ones? And what about aiming higher than 4-11 years children? what about the old fans from 20 years ago, still caring about the brand and hoping a cool cartoon ?
Oh, also waiting for good GAMES to play, but we got used to it…
stop trying to get money with sonic brand at all costs, take time to think what made the fame of sonic. Think about the past to know where you should be going to…
i miss a lot the genesis era… i appreciated more or less most of the 3D sonic games… but damn, sonic games have never been as cool as the genesis titles to me. :'(

I’m gonna be one of the few optimistic people here by saying I’m really excited for this thing.

Care Bear

Posted February 6, 2014 at 12:59 PM

This is a pretty big deal, and I’ll tell you why. If the franchise is indeed rebooted, that means Archie’s version of Sonic will become the longest running Sonic continuity. It will also mean it will be the ONLY place where characters like Shadow, Rouge, Omega, and Silver are featured, since I doubt this new childish direction they’re taking will involve using those characters (and bar Generations, they haven’t used them at all in a main game since Sonic 06).

So it looks like I’ll be sticking with the Archie comic if a reboot like this is indeed happening.